Tag: Christopher Hurt

Every community has unsung heroes, and in the HIV-care community there are many. Cassandra Durham is a fierce advocate for the HIV workforce whose dedication is reshaping what it means to care for people with HIV. A personal experience supporting a friend with HIV in the early 1990s—seeing his food...

The UNC Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases has received a three-year renewal of award funding for the Ryan White Part C Program, from the U.S. Department of Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). Natalie Hairston, MPH, MSW, UNC’s Ryan White Program Coordinator since 2023, provided critical support to...

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is an important tool for reducing HIV incidence in the United States, but barriers to access, including race, sex, socioeconomic status, and geography, continue to persist. Sarah E. Rutstein, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Christopher Hurt, MD, FIDSA, Professor of Medicine, and Brian Wells Pence, PhD, Professor of Epidemiology are conducting a study...

Despite a decline in HIV incidence in women in the U.S., approximately 18% of new HIV diagnoses in 2021 were among women. Meanwhile, many cisgender women have not considered HIV PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) as an option for themselves when it comes to HIV prevention. Historically, studies of interventions to prevent...

HIV virus eradication is a complex health challenge due to its long-lived persistence and how it hides in latently infected cells that escape the body’s immune system. Effective HIV treatments have decreased the likelihood of someone developing AIDS, while helping individuals live long and healthy lives without transmission to sexual...

Global health research is a collaborative process, and each researcher at the Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases contributes a piece to solving the puzzle of disease and morbidity. With a new academic year underway, read what some of our investigators are working on to improve the health of global populations....

The Infectious Diseases Society of America, the nation’s leading infectious diseases professional society, has elected the Institute’s Joseph Eron, MD; Anne Lachiewicz, MD, MPH; and Christopher Hurt, MD, to its latest cohort of Fellows of IDSA. As the highest honor in the field of infectious diseases, IDSA fellowships recognize those...